Oct 05, 2016

Re:Joyce Episode 345 – Feelings of Greed

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Gore Vidal as a modern Socrates, another gad fly stinging the state in the ass? Perfect. Good job on a very difficult subject. Academe, where I spent 40 years, is neither aware nor interested in acknowledging what's owed Plato.

Frank, I think you guessed it the first time agenbite of inwit came out, but I want to confirm it here (I'm sure you'll like it). In Italian the word for remorse is rimorso. Ri is the repetition prefix, and morso means bite. Again-bite!

PS It took me over one year, but I'm glad I caught up with the current episodes.

I remind myself that scintillant details should be written down as they appear lest they be lost in shuffle and the inexorable advance of time. Many podcasts earlier Mr. Delaney encouraged his listeners to seek out the ancillary works to which he alludes in explicating the text of Ulysses- literature to be enjoyed separately on their own. "A Kish of Brogues" and Frank Budgen's "James Joyce & the Making of Ulysses" come to mind. Earlier still he made reference to a pair of poems by a famous English author dealing with the approach of a lover on the one hand and his leaving on the other. Can anyone recall the name of the poet and the titles of those poems?